Every reference and Easter egg in Netflix’s Power Rangers reunion

polygon.com:

Much to the delight of scores of ’90s kids, this week marked the release of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always, a 30th-anniversary reunion special that brought back (some of) the original Rangers from the 1993 series and its follow-up seasons for one last jaunt ’round the Morphin Grid.

The results are as bittersweet as they are achingly sincere, embracing the aw-shucks corniness of ’90s Rangers while throwing decades’ worth of member-berries at its prospective audience. (At the same time, the show serves as an extensive tribute to late Yellow Ranger actor Thuy Trang — and, by dint of sheer tragic timing, franchise icon Jason David Frank, who died by suicide late last year.)

After all, Power Rangers has run practically nonstop since its inception, spawning 30 seasons, dozens of Rangers and hundreds of Zords (and a heaping helping of lore in the meantime). While this special is squarely for the first generation of Ranger fans, there are quite a few nods to lore and legacy from throughout the show’s decades-long (and counting!) run. So strap on your nostalgia goggles, hold out your Power Morphers, and let’s run through the bevy of references that eagle-eyed Ranger-heads can unearth in Once & Always.

Once & Always knows it’s only got 55 minutes to thrill us. So we leap immediately into a battle with an old villain made new: Robo Rita, a reincarnated — and, as the name implies, robotic — version of the series’ original baddie, Rita Repulsa. She’s got the horned witch’s hat, the staff, the pointy breastplate, and (most importantly) her original cackling voice, courtesy of classic series actress Barbara Goodson.

But the “robo” part (which conveniently sidesteps the problem of getting her face right, since the